INDIA’S TEA EXPORTS

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 28, 28 December 1917, Page 5

INDIA’S TEA EXPORTS

India's Tea Exports.—lndia’s seaborn exports of native tea in the year ■ended March 31st, 1917, fell ■17,000,000 lb short of the shipments in the preceding fiscal twelvemonth, 9,000,000. lb below those for 1911-15 and 5.300,000 lb below the average for the half decade: but they exceeded the exports for the pre-war years of 1913-14 and -1912-13. Some 25,000,000 lb of the year’s decline oepured in shipments of black tea to the United Kingdom and 9,000,000 ]b in the trade with Kiusia. Exports of green tea were larger than in 1915-16, though much below those for the three preceding years; but green tea at- no time forms any important part of the trade. The Uniteu Kingdom is India’s chief customer for black tea; Kussi a is second, and. notwithstanding its own large production of me leaf, China is now third, though in pre-war times it was outranked by Canada, and 1914-15 by Australia also The United States was seventh in 1916-17 and eighth in 1915-16.